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Transforming Private Life I.The Market and the Family A.Tradition v. Modernity B.Schumpeter’s Paradox II.The United States as a Case Study A.The Early.

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1 Transforming Private Life I.The Market and the Family A.Tradition v. Modernity B.Schumpeter’s Paradox II.The United States as a Case Study A.The Early American Family B.Women in Industrialization C.Rising Standards D.Changing Family Patterns III.Development and Gender Roles: South Korea A.Growth and Equality B.Decline of Tradition IV.Problems A.Culture Shock B.Conservative alliance and poverty C.Governmental Vacuum

2 Family Traditional Modern

3 Schumpeter’s Paradox Capitalism destroys the institutions upon which it is based (creative destruction). –Individual replaces family as core economic unit. –Government assumes the protective functions of the family. Joseph A. Schumpeter

4 The Early American Family Prime family, 1852

5 Women at Work By 1900, 13.4% of American women work for wages Chicago laundry, 1903

6 Prostitution Single men –Immigration –Urbanization Women’s Choices –Marriage –Sweated Labor Coercion & Fraud Denver brothel, 1895

7 Shifting Incomes How do you explain this?

8 Shifting Incomes, continued 1.Comparative Advantage Women do what they do best, pay others to provide child care 2.Women work in growth sectors Clerical Health care 3.Legal Equality Title 7, Civil Rights Act of 1964

9 Family Planning Education Technology –Birth Control Pill (1960) Law –Griswold (1965)

10 Marriage As women earn more money and gain control over fertility, they marry later.

11 Divorce As women’s incomes rise, the divorce rate climbs.

12 Premarital Sex Increasing numbers of women engage in sex before marriage Cohabitation rises from 0.2% to 7.1% between 1960-1998

13 Political Struggle Rush LimbaughRep. J. Thomas Helfin

14 South Korean Economy 19631970198019901995 GNP (bns. Of current dollars) 2.78.162.8253.6352.0 Per capita GNP (current dollars) 1002531,5975,88310,548 Employment structure (%) Agriculture, forestry and fishery 63.150.434.017.912.5 Mining and manufacturing 8.714.422.527.623.5 Others 28.235.243.554.564.0 Unemployment rate (%) 8.24.45.22.42.0 Non-agricultural unemployment (%) 16.37.47.52.92.2

15 Gender in Korea Years Life expectancy Labor force participation rate Wage ratio female to male (male=100) Tertiary education enrolment rate MaleFemaleMaleFemaleWageMaleFemale 196051.153.773.526.8 --- 196559.764.176.636.5-14.05.1 197059.866.777.939.3-14.65.5 1975--77.440.442.217.56.7 198062.769.176.442.844.524.38.4 198564.973.372.341.948.350.222.9 199067.775.774.047.055.050.023.9 199569.677.476.548.359.969.738.6

16 Population Control NationTotalAvg. annual (millions)growth rate (%) 198019951980-1990-95 China9811,2001.51.1 Japan1171250.60.3 South Korea38451.20.9 Indonesia1481931.81.6 Philippines48692.42.2 Singapore231.72 Bangladesh871202.41.6 India6879292.11.8

17 Divorce Note the speed with which change occurs in developing nations today: –Korean divorce rate rises from 0.5 to 3.0 in 20 years. –US sees same jump over 100 years.

18 Global Prostitution Seoul, Korea circa 2000

19 Problems Culture Shock –Reactionary trends Alliance between cultural conservatives and corporations –Without political rights, poor women stay poor Governmental vacuum –Human trafficking –Sexually Transmitted Diseases Reverend Moon


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